[at-l] Winter gets another chance in the South

[weathercarrot at hotmail.com (The Weathercarrot)]

Kinnickinic writes:

<< You can't be meaning inches of precip for the season.  What is the 
season?
Does it encompass five years?  No place but Seattle gets that much rain.  
Are
you really saying that Beech Mountain and the Roan area get almost as much?
That's a perception from Estes Park, Colorado, where our snow is currently 
82%
of itself, and wildfires are already in progress. >>

sorry, I meant snowfall for the season (which begins with first snowfall in 
the autumn). Officially, a snow season runs from July 1 to June 30th.

As far as total precip, including ran and melted ice/snow, Beech Mtn 
averages around 60 inches a year, and Roan High Knob around 70 inches a 
year. Farther south, the town of Highlands, NC averages 83 inches a year, 
Albert Mtn about 100 inches, and the high peaks over 6,000 feet in the 
vicinity of Cold Mtn (near Brevard, NC) as much as 120 inches a year. 
Seattle in cmparison, averages about 37-39 inches a year, which is less than 
most of the east coast and Appalachians. Seattle is in somewhat of a 
rainshadow - the Olympic Mtns block much of the moisture, but if you head 
slightly south to Olympia, rainfall increases. Across the water in Sequim, 
which is in the direct rain shadow, annual rainfall is as low as 18 inches, 
but quickly increases to 100-200 inches when you go to the west facing side 
of the Mtns along the coast.

wc



----Original Message Follows----
From: PUDSCRAWLER@aol.com
To: weathercarrot@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [at-l] Winter gets another chance in the South
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:06:15 EST

In a message dated 4/1/2004 7:57:26 AM Mountain Standard Time,
weathercarrot@hotmail.com writes:


 > Beech Mountain, NC at about 5070 feet will likely go over 100 inches for
 > the
 > season today, which would make it 2 years in a row to do that. Roan Mtn 
at
 > 6200 feet will likely to be in the 120-130 inch range for the season by
 > Saturday. As a comparison, Caribou, Maine is up to 99.3 inches for the
 > season

Weathercarrot,

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